I slice up the watermelon and keep the red part for me and toss the rest of the rind to the chickens. They will dive in and eat it down to the green outer rind. It's paper thin when they get done with it!

I was unsure about this too until my next door neighbor who sells produce gave me a dozen watermelon that were not good. I took the whole melon and cut it in quarters and gave it to them. They pretty much ate the whole thing - there was a tad of skin left. I have been giving them a melon a day and they wait for me every morning for it. Only probably is I only have one melon left!

Quote:Agreed! That's what our chickens do. It almost looks as if you've peeled the watermelon, it's so thin. They go nuts over it. Chunks of rind worked great when I was training them to go back into the coop in the evenings.